Editorial: Scott McCracken
new
formations 51 takes its title from a vital exchange between three contributors
about the relationships between twentieth-century Afican art, modernism
and nationalism. The issue also includes articles on the cultural significance
of the hijab in Europe, global migration, theorising postcolonial literature,
Kathy Acker as a post-Holocaust novelist, post-theory Heidigger and newspapers,
and the New York World Fair.
Ian Buchanan, David Dwan, Uzoma Esonwanne, Simon Gikandi, Ben Highmore, Parvati Nair, Steven Nelson, Jon Stratton, Neil Turnbull, Sara Wills. Cover image: 'Agunla' (We don't care), example of hand-painted cloth in the classic adire eleko design, Nigeria 1950s-60s.
CONTENTS
Scott McCracken Editorial
Simon Gikandi The Short Century: on Modernism and Nationalism
Uzoma Esonwanne Coming to Terms with Cultural Nationalism: on Gikandi's
'Short Century'
Steven Nelson The Short Century: on Art and African Subjectivities
Parvati Nair Moor-Veiled-Matters: the Hijab as Troubling Interrogative
of the Relation Between the West and Islam
Sara Wills Losing the Right to Country: the Memory of Loss and the
Loss of Memory in Claiming the Nation as Space
Ian Buchanan National Allegory Today: a Return to Jameson
Jon Stratton The Banality of Representation: Generation, Holocaust,
Signification And Empire Of The Senseless
Neil Turnbull Post-Theory: Theory and 'The Folk' David Dwan Idle
Talk: Ontology and Mass Communications in Heidegger
Ben Highmore Machinic
Magic: IBM at The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair
REVIEWS
Ben Highmore Mind the Gap
Claire Colebrook Deleuze: Ontologist of the Virtual
David Alderson The Irish Difference
Kelwyn Sole The Tyranny of Already Existing Interpretations
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